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Carlos Lot
Violinist, Assistant Director

Mexican violinist, began his studies at the Academia Yuriko Kuronuma. In 1987, as a winner of the Young Soloists Competition, he made his debut playing the Concerto in E minor Op. 64 by Mendelssohn at the Nezahualcoyotl Hall. He was selected by the Academia to participate in two concert tours to Japan, in 1985 and 1987.  In the latter, he performed as a soloist with the Takatanobaba Orchestra in Tokyo and with the Fujisawa Youth Orchestra.

In 1992 he received a grant from the Fulbright Foundation and from FONCA to study for a BFA in Music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, under the guidance of Efim Boico (member of the Fine Arts Quartet). Consecutively he obtained his Master's Degree at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati with Piotr Milewsky and Dorothy DeLay. He has performed in the Master Classes of leading violinists and teachers like Paul Kantor, Henri Kowalsky, Vartan Manoogian, Shlomo Mintz, Yfrah Neaman, Milan Vitek, Mimi Zweig, among others.

His career as a concert musician includes appearances in concert halls in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Mexico. He gave recitals in important venues of Mexico like The Sala Manuel M. Ponce of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Carlos Chávez of the UNAM, and the Blas Galindo Auditorium of CENART.  In the year 2000, he toured seven cities in Japan alongside Yuriko Kuronuma. He has performed in various International Festivals such as: The Indiana University Summer Festival, Lucca Italia 97 Festival, Music 98 of Cincinnati, Cultural Festival Expo 98 Lisboa, Third International Puebla Festival, Festival Camarissima, XVI International Music Festival of Morelia, IX Valle de Bravo International Music and Ecology Festival, Expo Aichi 2005-Japan, among others.

Within the chamber music environment, he was soloist and concertmaster of the Ensemble for Eighteenth Century Music with which he toured in Italy and recorded a CD. He also participated as a concertmaster of the Sinfonietta de Puebla, first violin of the Puebla Quartet, member of the Group Arion, and also made various recordings in the U.S. and Mexico. He is currently a member of the string trio Ensemble Quercus.

Since 1999, he has been professor of violin at the Academia Yuriko Kuronuma, contributing to the development of new generations of musicians, proof of this is the achievement of his student Juan Carlos Castillo in the 7th National Violin Competition "Hermilo Novelo" where he obtained the First Prize in his category.  Additionally, he has conducted Master Classes at the Music School of Puebla and the Rosas Conservatory of Morelia.

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